New search for Findmypast's family history records
The leading genealogical data site has reindexed more than 100 million birth records, with completely new transcriptions, as the first stage of a revamp of its birth, marriage and death indexes.
This means that you can now conduct birth searches across the whole range from 1837 to 2006, with a precise list of relevant results, rather than users having to search through whole pages.
Go to www.findmypast.co.uk to delve into this huge collection of 250 million names.
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Census to be scrapped?
A Government Minister has suggested that plans are afoot to scrap the census, which has served to calculate the British population for the past 200 years.
Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude, has stated that the census is "out of date almost before it has been done", suggesting there are cheaper and more accurate ways of determining the British population. The news comes less than a year before the 2011 Census, which will take place in March.
Census returns are among the most important family history documents, revealing where our ancestors were on a particular night and with whom.
The subject is being discussed on the YFT Forum and you can email us with your thoughts.
West Middlesex Open Day cancelled
The event is advertised in the What's On page of Your Family Tree issue 93. However, the Society has been forced to cancel the event at the White house in Hampton due to unforeseen circumstances.
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MyCanvas is a unique service from Ancestry.com. You can upload pictures of your ancestors and turn them into a range of great gifts and mementos. You can make a calendar containing different photos of your forebears, a photo album of all your treasured visual keepsakes or even a high-quality poster of your favourite snap. You can also add text to your images to give them a genealogical feel.
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Ancestry adds Boer War records
Ancestry has added a new set of Boer War records to its military collections.

Casualties of the Boer War
1899-1902 contains records of over 55,000 British soldiers who were killed,
wounded or taken prisoner during the Second Anglo-Boer War, as it’s more accurately
known, in South Africa.
A vast amount of the soldiers recorded in the database were killed by disease rather than the Boers, who concentrated on waging guerilla warfare in the hills of Transvaal.
The site has also added the
Waterloo Medal Roll, which lists 39,000 men who fought against Napoleon in the
famous Battle on 18 June 1815.
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Big names in Who Do You Think You Are? series eight
The eighth series of the landmark genealogy TV program is also set to feature gardening presenter Monty Don, soap star turned pop singer Jason Donovan and actors Robert Penry Jones and Alexander Armstrong, as they delve into their family's history.
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